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Full protection for children and adolescents: protection versus autonomy?

Studies in the field of childhood and adolescence are becoming extremely complex, both because of the historical novelty of the rights they hold - having as landmark in the international arena, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), and in national level, the Federal Constitution (1988) and the Child and Adolescent Statute (1990) - as the persistence of cultural difficulties in accepting sexual orientation, religion and lifestyles that deviate from a supposed medical, psychological and social normality. Thinking some of the challenges posed by this complexity is the goal of this text.

full protection; children; adolescents


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